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Recorded it just a few minutes ago. Just wrapped it up with Christopher Brockman. Good to see you over there, Christopher. How are you? Hey, Rich.
What's up, man? I'm great. DJ Mikey D is in these nuts. Good to see you over there. How are you doing?
And TJ Jefferson, I was thinking of you yesterday as the Metropolitans were taking on the Texas Rangers and the Dallas Cowboys were in overtime and the Mets were in extra innings and everything was in your life was teetering on the edge or leaving you very happy and you're here all happy as if both things were in the bag the entire time. Good to see you over there, TJ. How are you? I'm great. Had a great weekend.
Great outcomes of those games. And I only have one thing to say. No. No. I wasn't ready.
You were ready. Did you tell him before the show? Of course I did, Rich. And I told him I wasn't going to do it. You've got to win two games in a row to get your...
You've got to win two in a row. I told them that. Maybe next time. At one point yesterday, it did seem like the other job was going to be coming up there. You know that.
I would have definitely been. Are you kidding me? No, no. You just beat the Giants barely. Come on.
Anyway, good to see you over there. By the way, in part of your fun weekend, we will discuss later on, you were in Vegas for the Crawford Alvarez. Yes, I was. Set two. I was in the middle of some interesting group of people sitting next to each other.
Can't wait to hear those stories. That's later on. 844-204-RICH being the number to dial. Hey, everybody, we have our first situation in the NFL with an injured quarterback. As we all know, the San Francisco 49ers were the first team to go to their quarterback with an injured quarterback for an injury just hopefully for a week or two.
with Mac Jones getting the start for Brock Purdy. But now we have our first serious multiple week, multiple month, who knows what the heck's going to happen with this quarterback injury. And it belongs to the Cincinnati Bengals and Joe Burrow. And I guess the Bengals fans are sitting there saying, can we just finally be 2-0 in peace? Is that entirely possible?
From 2019 to 2024, under Zach Taylor, the head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals coming from out here in Los Angeles from the Sean McVay staff. The Bengals were 1-11 in the first two weeks of the season combined. Just one win to 11 losses in the first two weeks of an NFL season. And here they are finally 2-0. Doubling up the number of wins in the first two weeks of this season than they had in the first two weeks of the first six seasons with Zach Taylor as their head coach.
They finally got it done, but I guess the price to pay was Joe Burrow's big toe. I mean, and when he went down, when he went down, I thought he was going to get up because it didn't. It looked innocuous. The sack that he suffered at the hands of the Jacksonville Jaguars looked completely innocuous, and then all of a sudden, something was seriously up and he couldn't walk. And I thought to myself for a split second, could this be an Achilles injury?
Another one of these things where we can't see it coming. And then all of a sudden the entire season gets altered. But there he goes needing now, according to every single report you see out there, surgery that will cause him to miss at least, wait for it, three months. Wow. and off goes Joe Burrow again.
And at some point, we're going to start talking about how, you know, injury-prone the guy is and whether that's fair or not. But here we go again where something's up. Either it's one year where Burrow's hurt and the season goes down to tubes or Burrow's hurt and can't rehab in the offseason. He's spending his entire offseason rehabbing, So when he is healthy, it's something that the Bengals can't overcome. Man, it's just, again, how precious it is in the NFL to be healthy.
And how one year you go to the Super Bowl and it's just like, he is going to go every single year. And now here we go again where we're wondering if the Cincinnati Bengals can, forget the Super Bowl, I mean, just win their division. And I will just say this. Mike, our good friend years ago, Jim Morris Sr., once upon a time, said this on a post-game show with the New Orleans Saints when they were, I guess, 1-3 or something like that. And he went and he flipped out.
He wigged out at the sense that the Saints should start already turning the page and looking to next year. And he said this. Season is not over. I mean, we love our senior. I will say this to Bengals fans.
The season is not over. I know. Chris, I don't know. I said this on the Overreaction Monday podcast that we just recorded and just finished, and I'll repeat it here on what we call the flagship. If I told you going into yesterday's game, against the Jacksonville Jaguars, that the Bengals would in fact be 2-0 for the first time in Zach Taylor's tenure.
That the slow start that has been the bugaboo of this team would be out the gate. Done. Forget it. You're 2-0. The defense balled out in Cleveland and did just enough against Trevor Lawrence and a clearly stronger on offense with Travis Etienne and now a two-way threat in Travis Hunter and Trevor Lawrence looking better, even though he's waving Liam Cohen off at one point, and that the Bengals' defense would do just enough to win this game instead of losing it, and that the Bengals would also see Jamar Chase come up with his eighth career game with 150 or more receiving yards and a receiving touchdown.
He had 165 receiving yards on 14 catches on Sunday. If I told you that Jamar Chase would be doing such a thing, you would have told me, okay, this team can go to the Super Bowl. And Joe Burrow's looking great with Chase. It's Jake Browning who did it. I will say, once again, we saw Jake Browning a couple years ago be the darling of fantasy football.
I think Jake Browning won some people fantasy football leagues a couple of years ago. And I know this is reality football. And I know he threw three interceptions coming off the bench. But I think we can give the guy a little bit of a break because I don't think he saw any of this coming, nor did I, nor did obviously Burrow leaving the game in the second quarter with that toe injury that's going to have him out for three months. And that they did get a nice piece of officiating for them.
I didn't think that was pass interference on Travis Hunter at all. I thought Travis Hunter played that ball very well. They gave a fresh set of downs to the Bengals in their game-winning drive, which is the third career game-winning drive led by Jake Browning. The first one was Week 12 against Jacksonville. two years ago when Jacksonville's entire season got upended with Trevor Lawrence getting hurt in that Monday night game, if you recall, and then it wasn't the same all next year, and yada, yada, yada, it's Liam Cohen on the sideline now.
I think Jake Browning can win just enough games for this team to be not only above water, but a threat on offense. And we're going to be talking about, is this defense going to be doing just enough for Jake Browning? My concern is can you protect them? I saw over and over and over again, repeated into my Threads timeline last night, somebody, I don't know if it was a tweet or a post on Threads, but somebody said, what, there's 100 million obese people in America and they can't find five in Cincinnati to protect Joe Burrow? Pretty funny.
Wow. Pretty funny. A little aggressive.
Well, it's aggressive on just Americans' obesity, as well as, you know, I think the skill set of more than just fat to be an offensive lineman. But I think it all just said and done. Like can the Cincinnati Bengals do just enough to protect Jake Browning because once again Burrow is being picked up the turf Injured I don't think the season's over. I think Jake Browning is better than maybe a third of the starting quarterbacks in the NFL. How does that sound?
Really? That's a bold statement, Richard. I think Jake Browning is that good. Can we go through the list? I think Jake Browning...
I don't want to do that. I think Jake Browning is the best backup quarterback in the NFL. And that's why I don't even think they should call Atlanta right now. And I know everybody's thinking, get Kirk Cousins on the phone because he looked miserable last night. Sunday night football, NBC cameras kept finding him.
By the way, he's keeping his helmet on his head like he's ready. Like, I'm so ready to get in there right now. My helmet's on. I don't even have to find my helmet. Like that!
You know what I mean? He stays ready so he don't got to get ready. Right that? Listen, all I know is that if Brock Osweiler was wearing his helmet, He might have gotten in the game that one time for Peyton Manning. He wasn't.
Remember that famous chick? I know. He was like, what is it? How goes Peyton and he's just like this. Hey, I mean, Kirk, it's not his first rodeo, sir.
Honestly, and I think Atlanta, and we'll ask this with Albert Breer later on when he joins us in hour two, because everybody's basically saying Kirk Cousins is begging to get out of Atlanta, and Atlanta is trying to get rid of him. and because, you know, they're paying all this money to a backup quarterback and so on and so forth, there's enough time between now and the trade deadline for Jake Browning to prove me right. And if I'm proven wrong, there's more than enough time to call up Atlanta and say we've got ourselves a situation here in Cincinnati. And you think Kirk Cousins would get that phone call and say anything but when's the next flight to go to? I got to throw to Jamar Chase and Tee Higgins and have Chase Brown.
I don't care that there's an offensive line that seemingly can't pull it together. That's my concern. Can you protect Browning? Can you figure that out? Maybe that's what they should do with the trade deadline instead of going and finding themselves another quarterback because I like Jake Browning a lot.
And Jordan Palmer was the first to tell us about him in 2023 when Burrow went down and he's like, hey, I think Browning's going to get this team where it needs to go. Anyway. Here we are again. Burrow hurt. Browning in.
Everyone wondering if the season is over for the Cincinnati Bengals. It's just two weeks. They are next in Minnesota. Last night, as we saw, J.J. McCarthy is struggling most of the time.
and you go up there and put some points on the board and the Vikings might be very hard-pressed to match it. They could be 3-0. The Monday night or at Denver, that's a different story. That's a higher register situation. Maybe Jake Browning can go and do that before Detroit comes back in.
We saw what Detroit proved on Sunday. and we'll discuss exactly in detail what that is before a big game at Green Bay. I mean, it's not going to be easy. AFC North plays the NFC North.
So those are two of the arguably toughest divisions in football. Although, crazy stat, as of this very recording, the Cincinnati Bengals are one of three AFC teams, only three AFC teams to be 2-0. as many 2-0 teams as there are in the NFC West. Crazy. True.
And tonight, in the last game of week two, in the back end of the doubleheader on the Disney family of networks, the winner of that game in Vegas between the Raiders and Chargers will be the fourth 2-0 team to emerge from the AFC unscathed through two weeks with the Bills, Bengals, wait for it, Colts, and either Chargers slash Raiders being the fourth. but one of them already being on their backup quarterback for three months. I say, hold the phone. Let's see what Jake Browning can do. And maybe just maybe you should go into the trade market for any team that's willing to flip you their offensive lineman.
And I don't care how, how much that person costs. And then maybe Burrow comes back for their playoff run. Tells Browning, thank you. I'm Joe Burr. I'm coming in your building.
You're coming in ours because Browning did such a good job. Crazier things have happened. Like, say, Russell Wilson thrown for 450 yards passing and almost making TJ Sunday completely miserable. Crazier things have happened. There are a couple of direct flights from Atlanta to Cincinnati.
I have a feeling, sir, he will not be going through, what, Hartsfield? Yeah. It's only a one-hour and 20-minute flight. There's one left in first class, if he's curious. I think he'll be heading to what we call a fixed-based operator.
Good job, Rich. Thank you, sir. FBO for those.
Okay. I have a feeling Kirk's going to just fire up the PJ, and I don't mean pajamas. There's two left at the 420 flight. And at this point in time, I know you keep pushing it. I think Jake Browning's the best backup quarterback in the NFL, and I know you don't, you know, hand out any jackets and busts.
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Okay. Now Burroughs Toe needing surgery and keeping him out for three months made that and the Bengals our top story coming into this week two Monday show. I would have thought leaving the studio last Friday, we would absolutely be leading with Chiefs and Eagles.
Now we talk about them. We just showed to our ESPN and Disney Plus app viewing audience the statistics in the difference between starting 2-0, 1-1, and 0-2 in the expanded playoff era that started in 2021. If you're 2-0, you have a 77.4% chance based on the previous few years of making the playoffs. That drops down to 40% if you're 1-1 and 15.6% since starting 0-2. And the reason why, radio audience, we have Patrick Mahomes on the screen as the avatar for this statistic is because he is 0-2 for the first time in his career.
The last time the Chiefs went 0-2 to start the season was 2014. It is the only time in the Andy Reid Kansas City era that the Chiefs missed the playoffs entirely. And that's a problem. Certainly, right now, the Chiefs winning their division for a 10th straight year is in extreme jeopardy because they've already lost a division game to the Chargers, albeit on the road. That was a road game for them and a home game for the Chargers that I called on YouTube a couple of Fridays ago in Brazil.
winning the conference from a wild card position is possible at some point the chiefs will get rishi rice back from suspension the question is when can xavier worthy get out there with a apparently a fully torn labrum in the shoulder i mean that collision with Travis Kelsey was significant three snaps into the season. And the Chiefs coming into this year, their mantra was, we'll show everybody that the Super Bowl was an outlier. And we have a plan to no longer grind it out down the field. We want to take the top of the defense off like the good old days. Mahomes showed up as dad bodless as we've ever seen him.
And he's looked terrific. Spry, running the ball. He looks vintage, Mahomes, as he just finished up with this loss to the Eagles, his final game of his career as a 20-something. He will turn 30 between now and the Sunday night game against the Giants. He turns 30 on Wednesday.
so he looks great the question is how are they going to score points if they can run it other than him how are they going to score points if taekwon thornton isn't going to be putting the scare in anybody although it was 20 to 10 and it did put a little bit of scare in the eagles when he did find Thornton in an end zone to take the top of the defense off and make it a three-point game, the Chiefs just couldn't get the ball back. And the biggest turnaround of this game was when Mahomes targets Kelsey, the ball goes off of Kelsey's hands right into the waiting arms of the Eagles who damn near turned it into a pick six.
So one second it looks like the Chiefs are going up for a touchdown and instead it's the eagles who turn it into points and wind up with a two score lead which leads me to say this chris i know you were saying what's it going to look like when the chiefs don't get the breaks like they did last year we're looking at it right now some of them are their own making chris jones taking the wrong path to justin herbert on third and 14 instead of mahomes getting the ball back to try and win a game with no timeouts left, needing a touchdown in Brazil to beat the Chargers. Justin Herbert slides, and we're talking about him having an MVP-type game, three touchdowns, 300 yards passing, and the Chargers leave Brazil for the much happier long-ass flight home north of the equator. This one, just too many mistakes on top of not being able to run the ball. Mahomes took the my bad for what happened with Kelsey. I don't know if we have that soundbite.
This is what Patrick Mahomes had to say after the game about that one. Yeah, I mean, we got the defense that we wanted. You know, we expect him to play that 0-0 with the whole player, with the safety. I think I threw it just a tad too early, you know, just trying to put it on his body low before that whole player got there. And I think if I can put it more on his body and not so far out in front of him, then he can catch it, take the hit, and get in the end zone.
And you want to throw that a little bit low at the goal line, and give a chase like that across the end of the break? Yeah, you want to put it low, but more on his body. Whenever you're in those tight quarters like that, you want to give it to him, especially a bigger guy, more on his body where he can catch a brace for that contact. We knew the whole player would be looking for him. I mean, that's one of our big targets down there in the red zone.
And so he was breaking to kind of make a hit, and it was just unfortunate. The ball bounced up in the air and went right to him. We've been saying for years you've got to play a perfect game to beat the Chiefs. You make a mistake, they're going to take advantage of it and beat you with it. It looks like the Chiefs in 2025 are the team that can't make the mistakes.
That's what it looks like to me through the first two weeks. And, you know, Worthy being out and Rasheed Rice being suspended for six games doesn't help. It just doesn't. You know what would help? A 100-yard game from Pacheco.
That would help. Or a 60-yard game. Just something. Just something. Like Patrick Mahomes can't be your leading rusher.
You know, he's on pace for a thousand yards this year. It's like that's not sustainable.
So that's the way it looks to me is that the Chiefs have finally come back down to earth enough to be the team that can't make the mistake. That's what the first two weeks looks like to me. I'm not going to sit here and say this team is done. The window is closed. They have too many good players.
But something is off as Mahomes is now 0-2 for the first time ever. if you include the playoffs, on a three-game losing streak for the first time in his career. And how do they move forward with it? I think Mahomes was addressing some of that after the game about what happens from here. I mean, knowing the guys in the locker room, man, I think they're going to respond by just working.
I mean, that's how we've gotten to the point that we've gotten to in our career here in Kansas City is that we believe the work kind of puts out the product. And so obviously we've never been 0-2, but we've had times where we've dealt with challenges before and lost games and so I think the guys that we have in this locker room will go back to work with that mindset of we're going to continue to work even harder so that when we step on that field this next time we can find a way to win in those big moments like we have in this first two weeks Taking on the Giants and their new deep threat quarterback Russell Wilson on Sunday night and that's a must win I mean how many times have we said that about the Kansas City Chiefs in week 3? A must win because their next game is home against Baltimore, which is would love to take a shovel and throw dirt on the Chiefs. Would just love nothing more than to do that.
So, I've never said those words in, you know, the 11 plus year history of this show, I think, after just three weeks, is that this is a must-win game for the Chiefs. Maybe I said it in 2014. We weren't on the air. We weren't on the air in week three of the NFL season in 2014. That's how long it's been for this program entering year 11.
So the Chiefs are now the team that can't make the mistakes. And they've made enough of them. They've made enough of them. As for the Eagles, I just mentioned how the Chiefs have turned into the team that can't make the mistakes. Because normally if you make the mistakes against them, they'll just beat you over the head with it.
You can't give them extra opportunities. And the breaks are going to be coming their way. And I got to tell you, I think the Eagles have turned into that team. I think we've seen some role reversals here. The Eagles have turned into that team.
If you make the mistake, they are going to take it and beat you over the head with it in the same way that I said the bad connection between Mahomes and Kelsey on the goal line with them going in, right? Guess what's going to happen? you make that mistake you don't score a touchdown and you put the ball up in the air Chiefs are going to catch it they're going to take it down the field they're going to score points and they're going to beat you with it that's what the Eagles did yeah I mean again the red zone turnover that the Ravens suffered with Zay Flowers in the AFC championship game a few years ago the Chiefs took advantage of that won the game the Eagles did the same thing to the Chiefs yesterday and in the same way last year with the Chiefs we're like man they just when are you going to put it all completely together, right? When are you just going to put it together and look like the team that's the top seed in your conference?
Well, through two weeks, we might be wondering the same thing about the Eagles, who got fortunate when CeeDee Lamb dropped the ball. In the same way that everyone was talking about the Chiefs being fortunate, the snap goes off of Aiden O'Connell's chest when the Raiders had him dead to rights. a size 14 shoe and a 13 with a one in the game with white clates with the Ravens last year the same thing it's a CeeDee Lamb dropping it against the Eagles and oh man Kelsey makes that one catch Eagles are in trouble Eagles could be 0-2 if CeeDee Lamb and Travis Kelsey caught a ball right and at the same time, they are just put together to take advantage and sit back, let you make the mistakes, and then you try and stop them when it's time to have to stop them. Good luck. That's what the Eagles now look like as the defending champs coming into your house, and you better play a perfect game against them because if you don't, you will lose.
Good day, sir. I say good day. honestly you tell the Chiefs before the game hey guess what Jalen Hurts in this game is going to have a fewer than 130 passing yards he's hardly going to wing it around at all well Chris Jones tried to tell him during the kneel down we'll talk about that in a second okay Barkley's not going to run for 100 Jake Elliott's going to have three attempts you're going to see a lot of Jake Elliott and you'd be like sold sold I will sign for that Andy Reid would have signed for that. Hurt's not going to wing it around. Barkley's not going to run for 100.
And you're going to see Jake Elliott three times. And Mahomes is going to run all over the lot. You'd be like, done. Chiefs made the mistakes. Eagles did not.
Eagles have this unstoppable play with this tush push. Unstoppable. And it's certainly, definitely unstoppable if the Eagles offensive line beats the snap. Their own snap. Which is what's called a false start and is illegal.
but guess what? These plays, man, it's tough to officiate them. It's tough to review them. All you just see is where Jalen Hurts winds up, which is most likely than not in the end zone. He leads the NFL with 55 rushing touchdowns since 2021.
He has more rushing touchdowns since 2021 than Derek Henry, who's the only one with more than 50 since 2021. and he's got four straight games of the rushing touchdown against the Chiefs who are just, I think they want to take the, can they put this up for another vote to get rid of the Tush Push? Between now and, you know, if they're so fortunate to play them again? But good luck, man. Because the Eagles have this air of, like, well, they certainly have an air of invincibility when it's the Tush Push line, lineup.
And it just permeates out from that. Oh, A.J. Brown can hardly do a thing. You're not. Devontae Smith is hurt.
Guess what? He's going to get off the mat, and he's going to break your back. He lands on his back and then breaks the other team's back. Saquon Barkley, hold him for less than 100. He'll still score a touchdown, and so will Jalen Hurts.
Defensively, they're going to make a play with some guy you've never heard of, and that'll piss you off because they have enough people you've heard of. Jalen Carter kept the spit in his mouth. he's just he's unstoppable and that's the way it feels with the eagles right now that's the way it feels and right now the only team i've seen out there through the first two weeks that can play mistake-free football put the pressure on hurts and really make a very difficult day for him occur and the rest of this and not make the mistakes right now to me looks like the green bay packers through two weeks i understand we're an eighth of the season in i get it that's what overreaction monday is all about sure it's out there on our youtube channel for everyone to take in youtube.com slash rich eyes and showing our podcast everywhere but it's kind of role reversal you see the chiefs the team that if you make a mistake against them they will crush you with it and they don't make the mistakes now that's the eagles now the eagles come in with an unstoppable force and an air of invincibility about them they're the ones who come into your town to make your life miserable and they're the ones you're going to have to beat in philadelphia and they're the ones who have gotten two breaks with two drop footballs already this season. CeeDee Lamb dropped four, although the last one, I can believe they call that a drop pass Because that thing he was fully extended and he did hit him in the hands But it the one that went over the middle that hit him between the eights Yeah it was the two before that But again, he catches that. Maybe a different result on opening night.
Travis Kelsey and Mahomes connect. On the one that Mahomes said it was my bad. I should have put the ball closer to him on his body. Different story. The same way everyone's like, well, when the Browns went into Kansas City, if that ball wasn't fumbled through the end zone.
Or, hey, Eden O'Connell doesn't fumble the snap. Oh, the Broncos don't have the field goal blocked. Oh, this, that, the other thing.
Now with the Eagles, everybody's going to start hanging their hats on that sort of stuff because they're unstoppable. And that tush push, man. I mean, I go back and forth with whether I'm like so incredibly impressed with it, by it, and I can't wait for someone to stop it, or at this point in time, it's now like a farce, right? It was a farce in the NFC Championship game where it was at Luvu, kept hopping over the line of scrimmage to the point where the ref was just going to award them a touchdown. The son of Hockley was essentially like, don't make me pull this car over, because if I do that, I'm awarding a touchdown for the Eagles.
And now, you know, if the Eagles are going to be allowed to false start, fire off before the snap, then it's definitely unstoppable. Yeah, I mean, the guards helmets are ahead of the ball. Come on now.
So is a referee supposed to get down on, like, his or her stomach to get down and get the proper sight line?
Well, yeah, if that's what it takes. Everyone else can do this. That's the other point. I don't understand why teams aren't doing it. Yes, they can.
Everyone else can do this. 31 other teams. Banning it makes you anti-Eagles. I don't know. I think you need to get a quarterback who...
Squats 600 pounds? Yeah, who can squat 600 pounds. and three guys up front. Everyone has... Every team has five 300-pounders.
Everyone has obese players. You can just push them from behind. We have the Chiefs soundbites on this. Who's first up, Mr. Hoskins?
Chris Jones on the tush-bush. Hit it. You know, sometimes you can't get them all the calls right. And just because we see it, sometimes the official is 15, 20 feet away.
Sometimes you can miss those small things. and we think he jumped multiple times.
So an official didn't see it, so it wasn't called. And, you know, we just got to go play the next down. Is that something you guys have seen on tape before as you prepared for this? Has that happened sometimes? It happens.
People jump all the time. It's just, you know, if the officials see it, they'll call it. I don't think they've seen it those few plays, and we didn't get a call. It's tough to officiate, man. It's damn right impossible to officiate.
Andy Reid, I believe, commented on it as well. Let's hear what the coach has to say. Yeah, you know, you try to get penetration is what you try to do and be able to stop it. That's a pretty rough one. You know, I might add a couple that they got off a little early on, but we'll look at that.
Now, of course, he was going to be more diplomatic. Nick Sirianni, this is all brought to the attention of the Philadelphia Eagles head coach. I have not heard this soundbite. I'm just going to assume it is the most corporate, if you will, calm way to express in the English language the letters of GFY. That's in the GFY part of the menu.
He was like Bash Brother and one of the assistant coaches on the side. Hit it. Hit it. Yeah, we got to be very good at it because, again, like I said, teams are, you know, I would argue that they were in the neutral zone a lot and taking every inch that they had. They called the first one to back them up.
I didn't think they necessarily backed up, but it is what it is. And they're going to do other things to try to stop that with the way, again, don't want to get too much into it, but they're doing everything they can do.
So it's a little bit, you know, there's a little bit of gamesmanship on both sides with that. we know though that we have to be perfect with it with how we come off the football, timing it up all those different things because again we know we have to be perfect with it, we got to get better at that portion of it being perfect with it, when you're running that play everyone knows you're running that play so there's something pretty cool about being able to execute a play when you know exactly what's coming and it just speaks to the volumes of our guys and that's a heck of a football team. It personifies the Eagles. You know we're coming to your town, and you can't stop us. It's the personification of what, by the way, any champion wants to be, not just the Eagles.
Any champion wants to be, we're coming to your town, you can't stop us. And if you boil that down to one play, the whole world knows we're going to run it, and you can't stop it. And it is infuriating and deflating and absolutely something the Eagles run run better than anybody else in any play in any sport that I've ever seen. And you can't stop it. You can't even hope to contain it.
You can't even hope to contain it. That's what the Eagles are like two games in right now. And that was my thought process when I drafted Hurts for fantasy. All right. I wondered why I dance.
Like people care about that. Oh, my God.
Now I got to go to break, and I thought I put a button on it, and now this whole thing ruins it. I need to, like, go brush my teeth. You know what I mean? For fear that keeps repeating on me. It might come back.
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844-204-RICH, number to dial here on the program. I mean, of the teams that are 0-2, I mean, the Dolphins are a hard, hard 0-2. Hard 0-2. They're the only 0-2 team that when they were 0-1, two days after being 0-1, they had a team meeting to discuss what happened in that blowout loss, 33-8 in Indianapolis. And then they followed up with a home opener against the Patriots, who also lost at home to start the season.
and somebody's paying for a plane to fly overhead that says, get rid of the coach and the general manager. And it's a hot day in South Florida. There probably were just as many Patriots fans there, ex-pats, if you will, who are still Pats fans that were in the stadium. And then New England wins by scoring on special teams offense and almost defense. Right?
Yep. But they got home on defense with two sacks at the end of the game to end a potential comeback from Tua. Yeah, and a pick. And then there was Tyreek Hill at 100 yards receiving, but the one thing everyone's talking about was him open amongst three defenders and the ball went 15 feet over his head. And then he did one of those sort of emoting things.
So folks went to Tua after the game and asked him about it, and that's only added more fuel to this entire 0-2 fire. Having some talks with Reek and whatnot, that if I do, just don't think that I'm going to throw it 80 yards. As you're running, just do your best to track it because you could potentially stop. That's what ended up happening on that play for Reek. And then with him and Waddle with those deeper outbreaking routes, just trying to help them get open while maneuvering the corner and the flat.
Oh, boy. Salty, too, isn't he? No, it's not salty. That's not salty, Mike. What it is is it's a frustrated guy.
Because normally quarterbacks will say, that was my bad. End of story. My bad. I'll be better next time. Normally that's what you say?
Normally. I mean, we'll ask Kurt Warner on Wednesday. Don't forget, Kurt Warner last week when everyone was saying, Caleb missed a wide open DJ Moore. and man, J.J. McCarthy, what a terrible pick six.
That almost cost the Vikings a game against the Bears. He's like, I think D.J. Moore ran the wrong route, and I think Justin Jefferson cut his route short.
Well, we probably won't know because I don't know if Justin's going to admit it.
Next day, Justin admitted it, and two days later, the offensive coordinator of the Bears said, yeah, D.J. Moore and Caleb were not on the same page. He ran a different route. went long and Caleb in the middle of thinking he was going to be one place had to throw long and missed him so I don't know we don't know again there's always an iceberg we just see the tip and right now that tip in South Florida has the Dolphins 0-2 and everybody talking about you know Tua basically saying yeah I tell my guys you know track my football and fans are basically, yeah, we're tracking the football landing in the arms of the other team. Or going over the head of a guy who is our one guy who could beat the New England Patriots if you hit them between the one and the zero.
And then the coach is going to have to answer for all this stuff and he's already being asked about the plane flying overhead and Mike McDaniel's like, I'm not taking it personal, they want to win, which is a great answer. He wants to win too. And they better find the same page because they're about to get the Thursday night book thrown at them. They're going to Buffalo. Oh, the hammer.
They're going to Buffalo. Yep. And the Bills look super. Bills are handling everything thrown at them, whether it's a Ravens team going up on them by 40 points with a 40 burger, and they come back and win it in the fourth quarter or a Jets team that looks like the Jets team that we saw yesterday ready to be steamrolled despite Josh Allen accounting for, wait for it, zero touchdowns and they still won by 20 and that's the team that's welcoming the Dolphins into town on a short week. Maybe helpful for the Dolphins to turn it around real fast but they better turn it around figuratively fast.
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